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Against the background of swollen costs and intensifying foreign competition, the steel industry, led by U.S. Steel's Board Chairman Roger Blough, decided to take a stand on two propositions in this year's contract negotiations with the United Steelworkers: 1) increases in wages and fringe benefits must be noninflationary; and 2) collective bargaining must become a "two-way street," with the union yielding management a freer hand in control of plant operations...
...behind the fog, the issues in the steel strike-whether an economy beset by price upcreep will be subjected to another inflationary steel settlement, whether an industry already pressed by foreign competition should accept another upthrust of wage costs, whether collective bargaining is a one-way or a two-way street-still loom in the background, confronting the U.S. Government and the U.S. public with a demand for thoughtful answers...
...questioned, if not eliminated. Students may be deprived of using the whole Soldiers Field plant on certain days. The pros may need practice space on the already crowded property. Involved procedure might be required to permit the sale of alcoholic beverages, as much a part of pro football as two-way radios...
...Two-Way Street." Some kind of presidential intervention in the strike was plainly necessary. It had dragged on into the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. The huge steel inventories piled up in warehouses when the strike began back in mid-July had dwindled so drastically that manufacturers were starting to schedule layoffs for lack of steel. A dozen appliance manufacturers warned that they would have to shut down completely by mid-October unless the strike ended...
What kept both sides from budging was the steel industry's determination to turn collective bargaining into a "two-way street," as Cooper put it. In most big strikes in the U.S. since World War II, the fight was about the difference in size between the package management offered and the package the union demanded. But this time the steel industry brought to the bargaining table not an offer, but some demands of its own: contract changes to give management more control over conditions in the mills. Most important change demanded by industry: revision of the standard contract...